Dennis Brouwer Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing

Brouwer is responsible for product strategy and marketing for EMG’s networking, communications, and related services, across the US, EMEA, and Asia Pac regions. Prior to his current role, Brouwer served in senior product and program management positions with Savvis and other industry leaders. He was a co-founder of SmartPipes, a software company that developed and delivered network configuration and endpoint security policy enforcement tools.
Brouwer also served as Vice President, Product Marketing, at UUNet and CompuServe Network Services, with responsibility for product strategy and delivery of all Virtual Private Network and Security Services. Brouwer holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in Business Administration from Texas A&M University. He served as a Naval Flight Officer and anti-submarine mission commander in the US Navy for eight years.

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